Look behind too!

Whitetail deer are very adapted at sneaking around you, especially when you are still hunting. Here in Eastern Canada, the best hunt in my opinion, is still hunting for the whitetail buck. You can expect the unexpected while chasing down the wise old bucks. They know all the tricks, that's how they get old, big and wise.

On this occasion, I was making my way to the hunting zone at the edge of the swale where the most deer sign were visible. I was actually using a deer trail to get me to the downwind side of this swale where I usually started my walk, look, look, look tactics.

I have always looked around when I hunt whitetail, I mean all the way around, including behind me where I just came from. I have actually harvested an 8 point buck whitetail deer in my hunting episodes by using this method of hunting.

As I crawled under a windfall and as I stood up on the other side, I spooked 3 deer running away to my left. I crawled back under the windfall to get a better view. These 3 deer were actually walking, 3 in a row, directly in the path I had just walked in. The buck momentarily stopped to sniff the air and presented a perfect head shot at 88 steps from where I was standing. The two does fled as the buck dropped in it's tracks.

This was the third whitetail deer I shot using this method, the first two were smaller bucks.

I am going out tomorrow with this and many more tactics in mind. Hunting the bottleneck is the style of hunting I'll be using, more on that on my next story.

Good luck, hunt safe and have fun!